Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous.

If a person keeps cherishing his old knowledge in order to gain new knowledge, he may be someone else's teacher.

Isn't it a pleasant thing to persevere and work hard? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Isn't he a completely moral person? Although people may not pay attention to him, he won't feel uneasy.

Those who know are not as good as those who know, and those who are good are not as good as those who enjoy.

In a threesome, we must learn from each other, learn from the chosen ones, and change the bad ones.

The beauty of a gentleman's adult is not the evil of an adult, but that of a young person.

People with different courses cannot make plans for each other.

The real mistake is not to correct the mistakes that have been made.

Gentleman likes virtue, villain likes earth; A gentleman is guilty of punishment, but a villain is guilty of profit.

Benevolence can be good or evil.

A gentleman wants to speak slowly and act seriously.

The week of gentlemen is incomparable, and the week of villains is incomparable.

A gentleman is figurative, while a villain is figurative.

A gentleman in the world has no comfort, no Mo Ye, and no comparison between benevolence and righteousness.

Mencius ' quotations

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(1) If you don't follow the rules, you can't be Fiona Fang.

Mencius

Without compasses and rulers, squares and circles cannot be drawn correctly.

(2) Yes, and then know the weight; Degree, then know the length.

Only when translation has weight can we know the weight; Measure it and you'll know the length.

(3) People can do something without doing it, and then they can do something.

People can only make a difference if they don't do it.

(4) Although there are things that are easy to live in the world, if it is violent for one day and cold for ten days, no one can live.

Even if there is a plant that grows most easily, if it is dried for one day and frozen for ten days, nothing can grow again.

(5) sharp is slow.

People who advance too hard will retreat too fast.

(6) the official of the heart, what you think, what you get. Not without thinking.

The organ function of the heart lies in thinking, which can be obtained only by thinking, but can not be obtained without thinking.

(7) Born in sorrow, died in happiness.

Born of worry, died of indulging in happiness.

(8) Only the benevolent should occupy high positions. Being unkind and in a high position is to spread its evil to the public.

Only virtuous and kind people should be in the leading position. ? If an immoral person with low morality is in a dominant position, he will spread his sins to the masses.

(9) The son of heaven is ruthless and does not care about the four seas; The princes are heartless and do not protect the country; Doctor Qing is ruthless and does not protect the ancestral temple; Shu Ren is heartless. He didn't protect his four bodies.

If the son of heaven cannot be kind, he cannot keep his world; If the princes are unkind, they will lose their country; Qing and the doctor can't be good, so they can't keep his ancestral temple; Ordinary people can't be kind, so they can't keep fit.

(10) The monarch is kind and invincible.

The king of a country loves benevolence, and the world is invincible.

(1 1) save punishment, collect taxes thinly and cultivate deeply.

Reduce punishment and taxes, let people work hard and get rid of dirty grass early.

(12) The benevolent is invincible.

The benevolent is invincible in the world.

(13) A five-acre house can be made of mulberry trees, and fifty people can wear clothes and silk. Chickens, dolphins and dogs are all domestic animals, so there is no time to waste. Seventy people can eat meat. Don't seize the moment when you have a hundred acres of land and a family 100 people can go hungry. I sincerely hope that the godson of the cult will be filial, and the winners will not be on the road.

Each family gives him five acres of land, surrounded by mulberry trees, and people over 50 can have silk cotton-padded jackets to wear. Domestic animals such as chickens, dogs and pigs have the strength to feed and reproduce, and people over 70 years old will have meat to eat. The family gave him 100 acres of land, and without interfering with his production, a family of eight could eat enough. Run schools at all levels well and enlighten them repeatedly with the principle of filial piety and love for brothers. Then, the old man with gray hair will be helped by others, and he will not walk on the road with his head up and things on his back.

(14) Easy land, thin tax, people can get rich.

Doing a good job in agriculture and reducing taxes can make people rich.

(15) Ren Jun showed no mercy; Junyi, all righteousness; Jun Zheng, Mo Zheng.

The monarch is kind, and no one is unkind; Monarchism, no one is unjust; The monarch is right and no one is wrong.

(16) People are happy when they are happy; People have their worries, and people have their worries.

People who take people's happiness as their responsibility? The people will also regard the happiness of the monarch as their own happiness; Those who take the worries of the people as their own worries, the people will also take the worries of the monarch as their own worries.

(17) Benevolence is glory, but unkindness is humiliation.

When princes and ministers practice benevolent government, there will be glory; If you behave inhumanely, you will be humiliated.

(18) Those who have a constant birth have perseverance, and those who have no constant birth have no perseverance. Without perseverance, you will do whatever you want.

People with certain industrial income have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct. People who do not have certain industrial income will not have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct. ? If there is no certain moral concept and code of conduct, you will run amok, violate the law and discipline, and do anything.

(19) scramble for land to kill people; Fighting for the city, killing people and taking the city, this so-called cannibalism, is unforgivable.

Fighting for land and killing people everywhere; Fight for the city, and the city kills people. This is attracting people to eat human flesh, and the death penalty is not enough to atone for their sins.

(20) If you are a minister like a brother, then I regard you as my heart; You treat your minister like a dog and a horse. Then I put you Chinese; If you treat me like dirt, then I treat you like an enemy.

The monarch regards his deputies as his brothers and sisters, and his deputies will also regard the monarch as their confidant; ? The monarch regards his lieutenants as cattle and horses, and his lieutenants will also regard the monarch as ordinary people they meet on the road; ? The monarch regards his subordinates as dirt or weeds, and his subordinates will also regard the monarch as an enemy.

(2 1) Fish is what I want, and bear's paw is what I want; You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't have your cake and eat it. Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want; You can't have both, and you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness.

I want fish and bear's paw. If there are neither, I will choose bear's paw instead of fish. Life is what I want, and so is righteousness (truth, faith, justice, thoughts and actions beneficial to the public). If I can't get both, I will sacrifice my life for justice.

(22) I am old, and people are old; Young people, young people, young people.

Respect my elders, thus extending to respect others' elders; Take care of your younger generation. So as to extend to the younger generation who care about others.

(23) Mencius said: water does not divide things, and water is neck and neck. The goodness of human nature is even better than water. There is nothing wrong with people, and there is nothing wrong with water. Today, my husband's water, beating and jumping, can make it too long; If you are excited, you can make it in the mountains. Is this the nature of water? Its potential is also natural! People can be bad, but their nature is still good.

Mencius said, "Plain does not distinguish between things. Is it neck and neck? The goodness of human nature is like water flowing downwards. No one is unfriendly, just like water flowing downwards. Now on the other side of the water, beat it hard to make it jump, which can be higher than a person's forehead; Intercept and make it rotate, and you can stop on the mountain. Why is this so watery? This is really caused by external forces! Man can make him do bad things. This kind of behavior against his kind nature is essentially the same as letting water flow downwards against it. "

(24) the weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as people.

God-given blessings are not comparable to geographical advantages, and geographical advantages are not comparable to the unity and cooperation of people.

Killing an innocent person is neither benevolence nor righteousness.

It is unkind to kill an innocent person; It's unfair to get it when you don't have it.

(26) A benevolent thief is called a "thief" and a righteous thief is called a "remnant". The remnant thief is called "Lady". Never heard of killing, never heard of killing the king.

Those who destroy kindness are called "thieves" and those who destroy morality are called "disabled people". Such a person, we call him "the only husband". I only heard that Zhou Wuwang killed her husband Yin Zhou. I have never heard that he killed the king as a minister.

(27) The sage reigns and the Almighty reigns.

Make virtuous people occupy considerable official positions, and talented people occupy certain positions.

(28) Respect the sages, and Jie Jun reigns.

Respect moral people, use capable people, and excellent people have official positions.

(29) the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light.

The people are the most important, followed by the Tugu God who represents the country, and the monarch is the lightest.

(30) A city of three miles, a country of seven miles, attacked from all sides and was invincible. If you attack it around, you will have the right time. However, if you don't win, the weather is not as good as the right place.

Surround the inner city of three miles and attack it from the outer city of seven miles. There will be fighters when the weather is right, but if you can't win, it's better to be in the right place.

(3 1) The city is not high, the pond is not deep, the army is not strong and profitable, and there is not much rice. It is not as good as people and peace.

The city walls are not low, the moat is not deep, the weapons and armor are not sharp, and there is not much food. Abandoning the city and fleeing is that the favorable terrain is not as good as uniting the people.

(32) As the saying goes, the people in the territory do not take the edge of the frontier, the country does not take the risk of mountains and rivers, and the benefits of the world do not take the benefits of military revolution. Those who gain the Tao help more, while those who lose the Tao help less. When there is little help, relatives will be there; Help more, and the world will be at peace. Take advantage of the world and attack your relatives. A gentleman wins without fighting.

Therefore, border sealing can't control people, Jiangshan can't save the country, and sharp weapons can't become the world. People with morality get more help, while people without morality get less help. When there are few people to help, even relatives will betray; When the number of people who help is extremely high, people all over the world will obey. Fight against those who will betray their loved ones with the power of obedience from all over the world, so there is no doubt that they will win without fighting.

Mencius said: "Heaven will be a great task to the people of Sri Lanka, and they must first suffer from their minds, work hard on their bones and muscles, starve their bodies and skin, and mess with their actions. Therefore, patience has benefited them a lot. "

Explanation:

God is about to put a great responsibility on such a person. First of all, we should make his heart ache, make his bones and muscles tired, make him hungry, make his skin thin, make him down and out, and make what he does turn upside down and never be happy. Through these, we can alert his heart, strengthen his character and increase his talents that he does not have.

Being in adversity is not only "stretching its bones and starving its skin", but also experiencing different experiences in the body from those in the "greenhouse"; What's more, he is "bitter in heart", and his spiritual temper is different from that of "good times": "penniless" makes him have nothing to rely on; "Doing things in disorder" makes them feel at a loss and at a loss; All these processes will reach a result, which is also the fundamental way to get out of adversity: "So be patient" and "you can't get it", and your temperament, wisdom and ability will be tempered and improved in this process.

This process may be only a moment, or it may be difficult and long. During this period, I often feel at a loss, lose courage and confidence, and lose the direction of progress. At this time, it is easy to keep a calm mind; At this time, it is very valuable and necessary to keep a calm mind.